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Philippe Vasset
AFRICA Editor in Chief
The “Great Game” in Gulf of Guinea Gas
Profiting from repeated delays in gas liquefaction projects in Nigeria and with backing from the World Bank, Equatorial Guinea is positioning itself to process the associated gas of its neighbors in a new train at its EG LNG plant. (...)   [695 words]   [$11,2]
Maurel & Prom’s Hedges its Bet
   Initiated this summer (AEI 422), talks between ENI and Maurel & Prom on the latter’s M’Boundi field wound up successfully over a month ago, according to our sources. (...)  [214 words]   [$7]
OIL & GAS
CENTRAL AFRICA
All Eyes on Great Lakes
   Highly active around Lake Albert, Tullow Oil is also interested in Lake Tanganyika and other firms are seeking a foothold in the region as well.  (...)  [235 words]   [$7]
CENTRAL AFRICA
Total Looks at Methane Play
   The French major has begun to display an interest in gas reserves under Lake Kivu.  (...)  [269 words]   [$7]
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Emeka Offor’s Largess
   Accused of acquiring a block that wasn’t put out to competitive bidding in Nigeria, businessman Emeka Offor has brought a well-connected Nigerian company into one of his licenses in Sao Tome.  (...)  [329 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
A New Regional Oil Play
   The representative of the trader Arcadia in Nigeria, Mohamed Asibelua has joined forces with a number of Western partners to set up an oil group with interests in Nigeria and elsewhere in the region.  (...)  [259 words]   [$7]
GHANA
The Odili Family’s License
   A company owned by the brother-in-law of the governor of River state in Nigeria was recently awarded a block in Ghana’s offshore.  (...)  [280 words]   [$7]
MAURITANIA
GDF Seeks to Replace BG
   The French gas group is reportedly on the verge of bidding for BG’s assets in Mauritania’s offshore.  (...)  [271 words]   [$7]
ALGERIA
GDF Woos Sonatrach
   Gaz de France is seeking to bring state-owned Sonatrach into several of its gas liquefaction projects.  (...)  [172 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
MOL Seeks Opportunities
   The Hungarian oil group MOL is on the lookout for opportunities in North Africa  (...)  [235 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
ALGERIA/LIBYA    Joint Production Project
 [87 words]   [$2,1]
ALGERIA    Double Contract for Wood Group
 [47 words]   [$2,1]
MAURITANIA    Aigrette Deemed Not Commercial
 [46 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Exile Replaces Afren
 [107 words]   [$2,1]
KENYA    First Well in Deep Offshore
 [73 words]   [$2,1]
MOZAMBIQUE    A Junior Seeking Three Blocks
 [80 words]   [$2,1]

WHO'S WHO
FRANCE/AFRICA
Correction
   Africa Energy Intelligence misstated a first name when it reported in its last issue (420) that Yves-Louis Darricarrere would replace Thierry de Margerie as head of Total’s exploration and production division in February.  (...)  [62 words]   [FREE]
KENYA
Alfred Sambu
   Alfred Sambu was fired as chairman of the board of Kenya Power and Lighting Company (KPLC) last week and replaced by Crowther Pepela.  (...)  [78 words]   [FREE]
FRANCE/AFRICA
Thierry Le Roux
   A long-standing employee of Compagnie Generale de Geophysique (CGG - he has spent most of his career at the firm - Thierry Le Roux has been named the group’s executive managing director.  (...)  [114 words]   [$7]
IRELAND/AFRICA
Angus McCoss
   The exploration director at Ireland’s Tullow Oil, Angus McCoss, has been named to the company’s board.  (...)  [80 words]   [FREE]
UNITED KINGDOM/AFRICA
Peter Kingston
   Appointed chairman of Tower Resources in February, Peter Kingston is to replace Russel Langusch as chief executive of the company.  (...)  [113 words]   [$7]
CANADA/AFRICA
Feroz Abdul Sultan
   Technical director and member of the board of Britain’s Grove Energy, Feroz Abdul Sultan has left the company which he joined in November, 2003.  (...)  [113 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/NETHERLANDS
Edward Walsh
   Britain’s Edward Walsh, a veteran oil industry executive, has been named to the board of the engineering group Bateman Litwin (BNLN) which was formed out of the merger between the international operations of South Africa’s Bateman and the French firm Litwin in 2004.  (...)  [144 words]   [$7]

AGENDA
NORTH AFRICA    5th Annual Maghreb & Mediterranean Oil & Gas 2007
 [70 words]   [$2,1]
AFRICA    African Petroleum Forum
 [80 words]   [$2,1]
NIGERIA    Nigeria Oil & Gas 2007
 [50 words]   [$2,1]
ELECTRICITY
MALAWI
An New Outlet for Cahora Bassa
   Malawi is to start buying power from Hidroelectrica Cahora Bassa (HCB) in 2009.  (...)  [190 words]   [$7]
ANGOLA
Study on Matala Dam
   Canada’s SNC Lavalin has submitted a plan to the Angolan authorities to rehabilitate the Matala dam.  (...)  [157 words]   [$7]
KENYA
Voith Wins Masinga Deal
   Germany’s Voitch group has won a contract to modernize Kenya’s Masinga dam.  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]
UGANDA
Chinese Dams for Oil Concessions
   In a bid to help China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) acquire exploration acreage in Uganda (see P. 5), the China Development Bank has announced it is ready to finance construction  (...)  [141 words]   [$7]

AT A GLANCE
UGANDA    UMEME Gets 20 Year Concession
 [72 words]   [$2,1]
NAMIBIA/ZAMBIA    Interconnection Planned for 2010
 [155 words]   [$2,1]

GOVERNMENT STRATEGIES
EQUATORIAL GUINEA
Malabo Reassures Oil Men
   Equatorial Guinea’s mines and energy ministry said on Nov. 24 that new oil legislation had been approved by Parliament and counter-signed by president Teodoro Obiang Nguema on Nov  (...)  [100 words]   [$7]
SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
U.S. Installs Radar
   American military experts have begun installing radar equipment on the island of Sao Tome and on the neighboring island of Principe.  (...)  [145 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
DPR Boss Back in Business
   The director of Nigeria’s Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR), Tony Chukwueke has returned to his post following a three week suspension.  (...)  [173 words]   [$7]
AFRICA
Angola & Sudan Want OPEC Tie
   Angola and Sudan formally applied to join the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries on the eve of OPEC’s 143rd summit gathering in Abuja this week.  (...)  [129 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
South/South Summit
   The Nigerian capital, Abuja, played host on Nov. 30-Dec.1 to the first Africa/Latin America summit gathering. No less than 25 heads of state and 40 delegations from the two continents  (...)  [216 words]   [$7]

STATE-OWNED COMPANIES
Sonatrach    New Office in Milan
 [130 words]   [$2,1]
NOC    A Second LNG Plant?
 [136 words]   [$2,1]
Sonangol    Transparency Not Exactly a Priority
 [130 words]   [$2,1]

FINANCIAL OPERATIONS
SUDAN
Total vs White Nile, Round 2
   The UK Appeals Court will hand down its finding on the case involving White Nile on Jan. 17.  (...)  [234 words]   [$7]
NIGERIA
Local Oil Fund
   The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation last week officially launched the “Nigeria Content Support Fund” to which all the majors operating in the country and the leading Nigerian  (...)  [176 words]   [$7]
NORTH AFRICA
Gazprom Looks at Tamoil
   With the Libyan government’s sale of Tamoil apparently stuck in the sand (AEI 428), new would-be suitors have suddenly appeared out of the blue.  (...)  [126 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
Equator Unsettled
   Although it announced last month that Elf’s former exploration and production chief Jean-Luc Vermeulen would be joining its board, the management of Equator Exploration did not submit  (...)  [140 words]   [$7]
AFRICA/UNITED KINGDOM
Premier’s Suitors Back Out
   Over the past month would-be suitors as varied as Dubai Energy, India’s Reliance Industries, Kuwait Energy and ONGC Mittal Energy, the joint venture between the state-owned oil company  (...)  [101 words]   [$7]

CONSULTANTS
Livingston Group    Fighting in Congo’s Corner
 [178 words]   [$2,1]
RAB Capital    African Grand Prix
 [236 words]   [$2,1]
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